Hungary 2006 was one of my favourites. First win for Button after years of waiting, first podium for de la Rosa after seemingly being doomed to spend his career as a test driver, with Heidfeld scoring BMW’s first podium as a full team. There haven’t been many podiums where all 3 drivers had something to be genuinely delighted about, and this was…[Read more]

Not sure if I really understand the benefit of this idea. It became harder and harder to identify the drivers thanks to miniscule numbers on the cars, then their ever changing helmet colours, and if the bodywork liveries changed too – what chance would we have?

Found it a bit hard this time around as there are no real stand-out seasons in progress in my opinion.

1. Hamilton
Hasn’t made a lot of mistakes and generally has been performing to the top of his ability this season. It’s almost refreshing to see him perform like this, not riddled with rumors or complaints.

Forcing teams to run one-off liveries sounds just as pointless as banning helmet design changes. It wouldn’t have any real impact on anything whatsoever but would still undoubtedly draw criticism for that very reason.

As far as the one-off liveries teams run due to local advertising laws and countries with specific brands like this lotus livery and this Williams livery teams would have to change the coloring more since the amount they have changed their livery in these two pictures would not qualify.

I am not saying that teams like Ferrari and Williams will have to abandon their traditional colors, they can definitely create a very eye-catching livery while staying true to their colors. Here are two examples of a Ferrari and one of a Williams.

I just recently created a petition to require formula 1 teams to run at least one one-off livery every season and was hoping for some feedback from fellow F1 fans. Feel free to ask me any questions. I really feel like this rule would benefit all parties involved and fit nicely along with the 2016 & 2017 changes.…[Read more]